Try to get hold of some exhibition carpet. This is the stuff which is used temporarily for walkways and stands at various exhibitions. It's not very hard wearing but presumably you don't intend to us
Writing on Avelec's behalf, I believe the reasons for the variations in the capacitance guages are fuels' different dielectric constants, rather than density. Such changes affect the sensed capacitan
My preferred method for this kind of thing is to secure the panel to a smooth flat board using double sided tape (not too much, and put most of it under the "hole"). Use a tool with a radius arm at t
Jim, Some nice ideas there. I'm standing up if you're counting. I live near Luton with two local strips which are Europable - Graveley, near Stevenage, and Rush Green, near Hitchin. I have a spare be
Copper and aluminium react electrolytically quite readily. The normal solution to this problem where large currents are not involved, (and they aren't in your receiving antenna application) is to coa
Fred, Clearly I can't argue with your facts, since that's what they are. My thoughts were simply that if Alfred really needed to interface with aluminium then one way he could reduced the risk of ele
Steve, Mine did this too. I simply machined a part of the mass balance away, so that it looks rather like a truncated cone at the forward end. Then it cleared OK. I'm up to another case of looking fo
My method for fitting the H assy. in the fuselage was as follows: Attach the top ply brackets to the vertical members so that they stop short of the fuselage top surface by 2 or 3 mm. Remove the top
There's a bit of an airworthiness issue involved here. The tailplane, like the rest of the structure is proven to take certain loads calculated from speeds and control surface deflection. In the case
Alfred, The transponder buzzes away at over 1GHz and there could be radiation from the antenna feed cable. It's normally a good idea to keep such cables separate from the comms and nav stuff. You can
Tony, I was thinking about listening to it rather than transmitting on it - that's possible, even likely, on the approach I think. Also make sure you have an adequate working voltage, with a bit of a
Tony, You clearly know what you're talking about and I can't fault your logic and practical advice. I also suspect that most builders are concerned about the right problem ie. radiated RF noise. Howe
Tony, Interesting this - my Lowrance Airmap carries a CE mark (so that it can be sold on the international market) but it still squirts RF all over the place. So does the Garmin 195 I've tried. Eithe
Bob, I'm unsure of the legality, or even wisdom of this, but what I did on my microlight was to sheath the HT leads in copper braid, (stripped from coax) and terminate this - at the spark plug end on
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To Tony Krzyzewski and Tim Ward, Tony, Tim FRANKLIN, my friend from Graveley, is coming to NZ and it is him I am giving the taps to, not Tim Ward. Tim (Ward), Sorry about the confusion Yours - terrib
Richard, When I bonded on my top, I followed a suggestion at the time to use self tappers, rather than pop rivets or clecos to hold the two halves together. This has the double advantages of permitti